<p>How hard is it to complete a double major in finance and bio? I heard that AEM was fairly simple, but bio is obviously not. Would this require taking many courses? Does anyone know someone who has done this that could shed some light? Thanks.</p>
<p>I am applying to Cornell next year and I am thinking of doing AEM and Life Science too... I heard there is the Susan Lynch Professorship or something...</p>
<p>I wanna know too!</p>
<p>im interested too! i want to transfer</p>
<p>somebody PMed and asked me questions on this topic.</p>
<p>"If you don't mind, can you describe your experiences? Do you like it? How is the work load of the two together? Thanks!"</p>
<p>I was a CAS bio major my freshman year, and I decided I want to do the double major the summer before I came to Cornell. So, I enrolled in some lower level AEM courses and liked it. After that, I applied for a transfer to CALS, and then applied to be a double-major. I'm a sophomore now.</p>
<p>The thing is, as bio majors, we're used to doing massive amounts of work every night, and I have noticed that the AEM classes I have taken thus far add very little to my workload. Overall, you would probably end up taking 1-2 business courses a semester, and really it's not too big of a problem.</p>
<p>But the real problem is scheduling. There are certain courses for both majors that are typically taken at a certain time, a certain semester and a certain year. Like AEM324 Finance, which is taken in the Fall for junior students in AEM. There may be other courses for bio that conflict with AEM324 that you really need to take Fall of junior year. The only real way around it is to not pick a course of study for your bio major and just do the general bio option.</p>
<p>But aside from scheduling, it's not hard. I wouldn't say it's not very commonly done, but I like the flexibility it gives me and since I want to apply to MD/MBA programs, it's perfect for me.</p>
<p>i don't know a whole lot of people who mix anything with bio...
actually i don't know a whole lot of people who double major, i feel like that's something everyone wants to do coming in and then says screw it after a couple weeks of college. good luck though</p>
<p>I meant to say it isn't very commonly done. Oops</p>
<p>Penn has a very good MD/MBA program. Wharton reserves 5-6 seats a year for Penn medical students (only 6-7 apply) so if you can get into Penn Med, you're set.</p>
<p>Yeah, but Penn med's policy isnt that friendly towards canadians/internationals. I was thinking thinking more like Yale, Chicago, but Penn would be awesome.</p>
<p>Oh, you're intl. That's tough.</p>
<p>Yeah, yale doesnt consider canadians intl though.. so I figure that's my best shot</p>
<p>if you decide to double major in Bio and AEM, can you finish undergrad in four years? And also, would you have ANY space in your schedule to fit any other elective class you want to take?</p>
<p>im actually pretty interested in double majoring aem/bio as well.
what can you do after graduation if you do that?</p>
<p>^ Can someone answer ksbear28’s question? I’m also curious.</p>
<p>Also, if I took Microeconomics at a local college for credit, does it also transfer to ECON 1110 (Introductory Microeconomics or equivalent, including AP credit)</p>
<p>dunno about transfer, that’s really something that’s on a case by case basis.</p>
<p>but you can definitely do bio and AEM. I came in with some relevant AP credit (8 credits toward the bio major and 6 credits toward AEM) and then planned a way that I could fulfill both majors and still have some electives. I ended up sticking with bio only, but now I can tell you for sure that it’s possible.</p>
<p>I have some credits, though I feel like I might have just gotten lucky on the tests, or simply not prepared enough to skip the course. So let’s say I don’t use any credits… is bio (SNES, actually ahah but yeah, generally it’s bio) and AEM with the possibility of joining a sorority, clubs, and studying abroad a semester likely? Would I be completely drained?</p>
<p>it’s hard to say.
I relate to not wanting to skip classes, because I re-look a few classes that I could have used AP credit for. it makes sense if you think it’s something you need to build on. </p>
<p>I don’t think you would need to worry about joining clubs/sororities. </p>
<p>you might worry about studying abroad though. you will need to start planning that study-abroad very early on. you might want to do CALS exchange, since those schools are checked to make sure they’re compatible with CALS degree requirements, and give you CALS credit. in that case, you will probably want to choose which major you’ll focus on while abroad. some of the CALS exchange schools are only meant for AEM majors, for example, so you could plan to focus on AEM requirements while you’re there. you should look up their website.</p>
<p>the problem I see with studying abroad is being able to finish two-semester sequences in a reasonable amount of time. SNES is a relatively variable major (depending on which focus you choose) so it’s hard to say how much that is a factor.</p>